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Was there a hidden secret to Hudson Taylor's life?
Considered the father of modern missions, Hudson Taylor's biography is an amazing story of dependence, faithfulness, and sufficiency in Jesus Christ. And the book does, of sorts, reveal the secret to Taylor's success on the mission field and life.
Written by Hudson Taylor's son and daughter-in-law, Hudson Taylor's Spiritual Secret describes a man with fierce faith, a surrendered and abiding …

In the Upper Room scene of John 13-16, Jesus talks to the disciples about the necessity of the Holy Spirit and how they (and we) are to abide in Christ through the Holy Spirit. It climaxes in John 15 when Jesus gives the illustration of the vine and branches:
"Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me. I am the vine, you are the branches. He who …

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There are a few men from Christian history who stir my heart every time I read their writings—and Major Ian Thomas is toward the top of the list.
What I absolutely love about Ian Thomas is the centrality of Jesus Christ in everything he preaches or writes. He continually returns to the focus that Jesus is to be everything in our lives, He should be the single focus, He should have the pre-eminence, He should be our life.
In Colossians 1:27, …

AW Tozer is one of my favorite Christians from yesteryear. Every time I read or listen to Tozer, I am challenged to freshly lay down everything and fully pursue Jesus Christ.
His words are potent, sharp, and piercing. His words, though spoken decades ago, have a freshness about them that make them as applicable today as they were when they were first written. His words continually push one to a sole focus and pursuit of Jesus.
Perhaps best …

Several years ago I offered this book during the monthly book giveaway, and though I've yet to repeat a book, this one is just too good not to give away a few more copies of it. As I wrote previously:
Few books have the ability to grip the reader, bring tremendous illumination, conviction, and stirring of soul, and do it all within fifty pages. Such is the case for Amy Carmichael's book God's Missionary. It is as if Carmichael wrote the words …

Yesterday Ellerslie Discipleship Training celebrated the end of our winter/spring semester with an incredible day of fellowship, remembrance, and worship of Jesus.
One of the things we do in the afternoon is to award a few students who were selected by their classmates for certain honors. For one of the honors, a male and female student is given a journal with all the previous honor recipients commissions to this generation—in short, it is a …